WillowTree Launches Platform for School Apps, Sites

WillowTree Apps has launched the Apps for Education Platform, a tool designed to help schools develop and deploy customized apps and HTML5 Web sites.

"The platform also allows parents to access important school information in one convenient location through single sign-on," according to a WillowTree news release. "App users can access information like school news, calendars, maps, lunch menus, as well as arts and sports information."

"We wanted to give our parents a comprehensive and efficient way to access what they want when they want — and we also wanted to find a way to save money in the process," said Cody Cunningham, chief communications officer at MISD, in a prepared statement. "The Apps for Education Platform allowed us to create our misdGO app quickly and efficiently without having to invest in whole new systems — and we were even able to make it easy for our parents by letting them use their current Web site logins. All of this allowed us to reduce our printed newsletter efforts, resulting in net savings."

Whitepapers

In 2013, just one year after becoming the first school in South Florida to issue iPads to every student as part of its 1:1 initiative, Archbishop McCarthy began evaluating new learning management systems to replace the LMS used by the school for a decade. Principal Richard P. Jean said the school’s primary goal was to find a modern LMS that paired well with iPads and that enabled students to “get the most” from the 1:1 initiative in high school and beyond.
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